Monday, August 7, 2017

request for input and a give-away!!!!!!

I'm thinking of making a limited edition Stamp People desk calendar for
2018, and I need your help in choosing the images to go into it. Please
link to my portfolio on RedBubble and choose your TEN favorite Stamp People images.
Then list them in order of your preference in a comment below. Name them
by the words in the title brackets (baby, cyclist, Lincoln, etc). This would
be an ENORMOUS help. THANK YOU. (I also have some as-yet unpublicized images I plan to include, so the final selection will include some surprises.)

In appreciation for your help, I will put the names of everyone who leaves a comment into a deep bag and randomly pick out one name to receive a free Stamp People desk calendar by the end of this year.

They really are difficult to choose between!If I had to, I would say... 1. Flying Cyclist2. When you sparkle, the world sparkles with you3. John Miur4. King and Queen5. The chicken lady 6. Albert Einstein7. Abraham Lincoln8. The baby9. Hisoko Maejima10. Hermes

I love them all and it is very difficult to choose but I tried and here is the result. The numbers refer to the mountains. 1.Abraham Lincoln ( New Year resolutions) 2.King & Queen (Valentine`s Day ) 3.Johann Sebastian Bach ( good for Easter, however this is moveable fesst) 4.Eugene O`Neil 5.The poet (for me it`s the poetry month) 6.The Chicken Lady 7.John Muir 8.The flying Cyclist 9.The Sign Linguistic (International day of Deaf is celebrated in September) 10.Albert Durer 11. Albert Einstein 12. The Baby

A Beginner's Guide to Etegami

what is etegami?

Etegami (e= "picture"; tegami= "letter/message") are simple drawings accompanied by a few apt words. They are usually done on postcards so that they can be easily mailed off to one's friends. Though etegami has few hard-and-fast rules, traditional tools and materials include writing brushes, sumi ink, blocks of water-soluble, mineral-based pigments called gansai, and washi postcards that have varying degrees of "bleed." They often depict some ordinary item from everyday life, especially items that bring a particular season to mind.